In contrast to widely varying forecasts by
opinion polls, betting shops were
virtually unanimous in installing the Tories as firm favourites for victory on May 6.
Most recently, in R v Oakes, 2016 ABCA 90, the case that is my topic here, the majority ruling of Justices Myra Bielby and Frederica Schutz, at para. 11, adopted the
opinion in R v Truscott (2007), 225 CCC (3d) 321 (Ont CA) where a
unanimous five member panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal stated, at para. 110, that the power to overturn a conviction founded in a miscarriage of justice, ``... can reach
virtually any kind of error that renders the trial unfair in a procedural or substantive way.»